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I just purchased the DCS-930L from bestbuy and decided to try it out. I got it working with the following configuration

on Modect
MaxFPS 20
Alarm FPS 20

Remote Host Name - username:password@<ip>
port - 80
Remote Host Path - /image.jpg?
640x480 24bit color
Buffersize 10
warmup frames 10

HTTP_VERSION 1.1

MPEG_LIVE_FORMAT mpeg
MPEG_REPLAY_FORMAT mpeg
PATH_FFMPEG /usr/bin/ffmpeg

OS - Fedora 14


UPDATE:

My setup wasn't working as smoothly as a had hoped. I had a lot of freezes and such. After increasing shared memory and resetting my install here are my new settings.

Remote Host Path - /image/jpeg.cgi
Buffersize 40
warmup frames 25

UPDATE2:

my camera would not exit alarm state after a few days of working normally. The new events always had the date of 1969. I think it was a database corruption. I've switched over to InnoDB from MyISAM database engine. Hopefully that makes it more stable.

UPDATE3:

I went back to the MyISAM engine because InnoDB was acting funny. I ran the mysqltuner program and implemented the changes in /etc/my.cnf and that seemed to make the system a lot more stable with no extended alarms and 1969 dates.

I get a consistant 10 fps.

I got my DCS-930L working as well, but I had a small problem along the way. Apparently (I finally learned from another post) the wireless SSID can not include blanks. Later (after a day or two of still no luck with wireless), I realized that lower case non-hex ascii is not tolerated in the WPA2 key.

Otherwise good camera.

On a somewhat related note, I found that when defining zones, you need to be careful not to define right to the edge of the image. Otherwise zmc crashes. Maybe this is fixed in 1.24.3.